Archive for June, 2006

Where are your customers?

| June 26, 2006 | 1 Comment

I’m on vacation at the moment, and yesterday we paid a visit to the March Airfield Museum, a great place to see old military aircraft and learn about history. As we were walking out, I noticed 3-4 display racks with tourist-related information — hotel coupons and things like that. And I thought, “That’s pretty smart. [...]

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More local search advertising options

| June 25, 2006 | 0 Comments

One of the after-effects of the Local Search Marketing Guide and the astonishing attention it got is that I’ve been barraged with emails from companies/web sites operating in the Local Search arena who want to make me aware of their product / web site / service / advertising opportunity for small businesses. Since I’m on [...]

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Speaking at SES San Jose

| June 24, 2006 | 0 Comments

It is quite an honor to be able to say that I’ll be speaking at the big Search Engine Strategies – San Jose conference in August. Yep, little ‘ol me…. who’da thunk it? I’ll be speaking during the Big Ideas for Small Sites & Small Budgets session on Wednesday morning. It’ll be a pleasure to [...]

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Light posting…

| June 16, 2006 | 0 Comments

Someone once said you have to “leave ‘em wanting more”, so now that SBS has apparently developed a readership … I’m outta here. I’ll be on the road for a bit coming up, but expect to have ‘net access. So there will be posts, just not as often as I might prefer. Thanks again to [...]

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Picture yourself on Flickr

| June 15, 2006 | 2 Comments

The title says it all… How to Market on Flickr

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Are you blogging yet?

| June 15, 2006 | 2 Comments

One of my mantras for small businesses is this: Work harder, work smarter, and be more creative. Combine those with a good marketing plan and I think you have a recipe for online success. So the question tonight is: Are you blogging yet? A blog on your business web site, if done properly, can fulfill [...]

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Speaking of the Local Search Marketing Guide…

| June 14, 2006 | 0 Comments

The Guide to MSN Local Search was tough to put together because they seem so disorganized. Why are they running Superpages ads, and not AdCenter? If you’re smart about AdCenter and MSN Local Search, maybe you could answer this question that I posed on the SEW Forum a few days ago?

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Whoa. Hello again to the new folks.

| June 14, 2006 | 0 Comments

Looks like today is shaping up to be even busier than yesterday here on SBS. So, hello to all the first-time visitors and welcome. If you would, scroll down a few posts or just click this link to read my welcome message from 24 hours ago. (With a handy link to the feed….) Great thanks [...]

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